Air Craft Collection (page 17)

Ensign Air Liner and Empire flying boat
Poster advertising the Ensign air liner for European services, now being built by the Armstrong Whitworth company, and the Empire flying boat built by Short Brothers

a Searchlight Battery
SLC radar equipment on an anti-aircraft searchlight battery on the Home Front in England during World War II in 1945

Home Front World War II
A party of London Anti-aircraft gunners watching a dogfight on the Home Front in England during World War II

Collection of transport memorabilia
A display of memorabilia and artworks, including model aircraft, a Great Eastern Railway plaque, flying or driving goggles and leather hats, and books and prints

BOAC Stratocruiser Speedbird
Model of a BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) Stratocruiser Speedbird, cut-away to reveal the seating arrangement inside, with a pilots hat

German Tank 1918
A German Tank and aeroplane in action on the Western Front in France during World War I in 1918

A ride in an aeroplane
Two little girls wearing flying helmets sit in the open cockpit of an aeroplane, eyes agog, enjoying their first flight in an aeroplane

Aeroplane and airship
An aeroplane and a huge airship share air space above the clouds

Royal Visit to the USaF
Their Majesties, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, accompanied by Princess Elizabeth visiting a USaF station in 1944 and with General Doolittle shortly after Princess Elizabeth had christened

Turkish fighter aircraft - WWI
Turkish fighter aircraft flying over the Dardanelles during the First World War

Crashed German aircraft - WWI
A german light biplane which has crash landed and come to rest on its nose on the battlefield - World War One

French anti-aircraft gunners - WWI
World War One - French Army with anti-aircraft guns and their spotter with a large telescope! Date: circa 1906

Italo-Turkish War - Aircraft
Captain Moizo prepares for a reconnoitring flight in his Nieuport monoplane during the Italo-Turkish War

The Bystander Flying Number
Colourful, graphic front cover design by Lowen for The Bystander Flying Number featuring a seaplane landing near an exotic Mediterranean location

Anti-airship battery
A sketch of war. One of the first anti-aircraft guns - a French artllery team with a gun on a rotating mounting, specifically used to target airships

Torpedo-Dropping Aircraft
This photograph shows an aircraft making an attack on a merchant vessel

The Battleship Arizona
The photograph shows the battleship Arizona which was sunk by a Japanese aircraft in Pearl Harbour, 1941

Yankee Clipper seaplane
The 41 ton Yankee Clipper seaplane arriving at Marignane Airport

Flying Poster The Puss Moth
A colour advertisement for light aircraft, from the Art Deco period, portraying a couple going on holiday

1957 nuclear test: The men who dropped Britains H-bomb
Britains first nuclear weapons test took place on May 15th 1957, when a nuclear device was successfully exploded high in the air over Christmas Island in the Central Pacific

Early Turkish anti-aircraft gun team
Early anti-aircraft gunners. Turkish troops shooting down a Pigeon flying machine in the early years of the First World War

Dunston Pillar, Lincs, raised 1751 as an inland lighthouse; later a statue of George III was added, but in WW2 the top bit will be removed as a hazard to aircraft

The Long and the Short of it
Disconcerting effect generated by two thoughtless gliders gliding in the peak district. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

Pyramids at Giza
The pyramids of Khufu and Khafre at Giza with the Sphinx in the foreground. A very early aeroplane flies above these wonders of the Ancient World

French Aviation Service
With the French Aviation Service - A Mid Air Compbat, showing a dogfight between French and German planes

Handley Page Airline
A poster advertising the daily Handley page flights to and from Paris

Crash in the Crater Zone
An aeroplane damaged during a forced landing in a crater zone waits for help. It emerges from a tank sporting multi-coloured camouflage

The Magic Interlude
Three children are interrupted from a game of tennis by an aeroplane buzzing high in the sky on an afternoon late in World War I, by which time aircraft were a familiar sight in the sky

HMS Ark Royal listing to starboard, Second World War, 1941
Photograph showing the Royal Navy aircraft-carrier HMS Ark Royal listing heavily to starboard, after being torpedoed in the Mediterranean Sea in November 1941

German Artillery Gun, Second World War, 1945
Photograph showing a wrecked German 88-mm anti-aircraft/anti-tank gun in Belgium, January 1945. This gun had been abandoned by the retreating German army after the Battle of the Bulge

Sailors carrying potatoes onto HMS Coventry, Second World
Photograph showing the seamen of HMS Coventry carrying sacks of potatoes onto their ship, as it is refitted at a British dockyard in 1940. HMS Coventry was an anti-aircraft cruiser of 4290 tons

Flight Deck of HMS Colossus, Second World War, 1945
Illustration showing a Barracuda bomber landing on the flight deck of the Royal Navy aircraft-carrier, HMS Colossus, in the Pacific Ocean, 1945

Aircraft Production Line at Coventry; Second World War, 1939
Photograph showing a shed full of Whitley bomber wings at the Armstrong Whitworth works in Coventry, Britain, 1939. The wings, 84 foot in length from tip to tip, were being built up stage by stage

German Bomber Shot Down over Victoria; Second World War, 194
Illustration showing the destruction of a German bomber mid-air, after it had been shot up by an RAF fighter, over Victoria in London, 1940

Anti-Aircraft Rockets, Britain; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing the firing of anti-aircraft rockets at night, by British Home Guard units, during 1944

Royal Navy Seafire taking off; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing a rocket-assisted take-off by a Royal Navy Seafire fighter during the Second World War. Rockets were used to help aircraft take off when they were either heavily laden or operating

The Gun Control Room, Britain; Second World War, 1944
Illustration showing the interior of the Gun Control Room, the headquarters of Londons anti-aircraft defences during the Second World War, 1944

Crashed Heinkel HE-111 Bomber; Second World War, 1940
Illustration showing a crashed German Heinkel HE-111 bomber burning in a wood in Essex, 18th June 1940. This bomber had taken part in one of the large air-raids on London

British 3. 7-inch Anti-Aircraft Gun; Second World War, 1940
Photograph showing a British 3.7-inch anti-aircraft gun taking in part in night exercises, somewhere in Britain, c.1940

Unloading an airplane, Gatow Airport, Berlin, 1948
Photograph showing a generator set being unloaded from a York aircraft at Gatow Airport, during the Berlin Airlift, 1948. Between April 1948 and May 1949 Stalin, leader of the USSR

Lt. -Colonel Jimmy Doolittle on the deck of the Hornet; Sec
Photograph showing Lt.-Colonel Jimmy Doolittle attaching a Japanese medal to the fin of a 500-lb. bomb on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Hornet in April 1942

Flying Fortresses at an airfield near Munich, August 1945
Aerial photograph showing hundreds of Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers parked on an airfield near Munich in the summer of 1945

Captured Focke-Wulf 190, Britain; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing a captured German Focke-Wulf 190 fighter-bomber aeroplane, painted in Royal Air Force markings, 1944. During the Second World War

Captured Messerschmitt 109G, Britain; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing a captured German Messerschmitt 109G fighter aeroplane, painted in Royal Air Force markings, 1944. During the Second World War

An Allied radiographer on the Balkan front receiving message
A photograph of a group of Allied soldiers outside a dug-out on the Balkan front in October 1916. At a makeshift table is a radiographer receiving messages from allied aircraft

A propeller attached to the wreckage of a German zeppelin
The wreckage of a German zeppelin shot down by British fighter planes and anti-aircraft fire following a bombing raid on London, 23rd September 1916

A gondola, part of the wreckage of a German zeppelin which took part in a bombing raid on London on the night of 23rd September 1916

A British anti-aircraft gun
A Photograph of a British anti-aircraft gun on a pivoting mount

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping